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Storage Protect Family

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Provide a guide or option in Operations Center to change from tape to replserver pool protection

The Spectrum Protect Operations Center throws an error stating the server is configured to use container-copy pools to protect data to tape, and that you can't configure replication for the server. However, neither the message, nor the built-in he...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 0 Is a defect

Query output explanation required

HelloPlease provide me with the detailed explanation of the output (columns and their values) of command that is executed on the datamover: SHOW VM ALLThank you.
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 2 Not under consideration

Journal Based Backup Stall

In this case, the journal database was not updating and so backups became stale until a Full Incremental was run. This request is for a monitoring alert for when the journal db does not receive any updates, perhaps in the last 24 hours.
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Reporting and Monitoring) 2 Is a defect

Allow snapdiff backups of NetApp CIFS volumes containing widelinks

TSM uses NetUseEnum() to determine if a NetApp CIFS share is connected before attempting a snapdiff backup. When run on a NetApp CIFS volume with widelinks, it results in the following error: ANS2831E: Incremental by snapshot difference cannot be ...
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Not under consideration

TSM Terabyte Front End Capacity Calculator - needs to be reworked for VE

Please see mentioned PMR. Calculation of front end capacity for TSM for Virtual Environments is wrong, in my opinion. The results differ wildly depending on if the customer uses thin or thick disks and if there happen to be snapshots, for example....
almost 10 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 2 Not under consideration

TVE Duplicate Backup Task

If a backup task is running and new one task is started on the same object using the GUI, it will cause the first backup to fail. The TVE system should indicate that a backup on the object is currently executing and skip or queue the second backup...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 0 Not under consideration

TSM needs basic functionality on ALL common OS:es

The TSM client segfaults on startup on Fedora 18. While Fedora 18 hasn't yet made it to the best-effort support category, IBM should at least try to have dsmc basic functionality on all common operating systems. I'm also told that Ubuntu 13.04 use...
over 11 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 3 Planned for future release

Support for secure NDMP

NAS filer (i.e.NetApp) are supporting secure NDMP.This ensures secure communication between the NDMP server and the backup application.https://library.netapp.com/ecmdocs/ECMLP2348067/html/GUID-E3157FCA-CAE6-4614-A549-557025A2EC46.html Spectrum Pro...
over 8 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

backup and restore to windows cifs share without explicitly using net use

Currently in order to backup a windows cifs share, to do a snapdiff or otherwise, you need to issue a "net use" as a pre command to a scheduled backup. This is an extra step in configuration/scripting that shouldn't be necessary. This also makes i...
over 13 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Backup-Archive Client) 4 Not under consideration

Tool to reset damaged files without "audit volume"

Sometimes there is some error condition while the TSM server is reading a tape (tape failure, drive failure, network failure, other). In many of these cases, the TSM server marks the files it could not read as "damaged". The standard way of making...
over 6 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Not under consideration

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